The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess – Race, Culture, and America`s Most Famous…

The University of North Carolina Press

The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess Race Culture and Americas Most Famous Opera\nby Ellen Noonan\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ellen Noonan\nTitle: The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess Race Culture and Americas Most Famous Opera\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Theatre studies\nPublisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9781469617534\nISBN-10: 1469617536\nRRP: \u00A344.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nCreated by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century American expectations about rac.